CVE-2026-110452 (GCVE-0-2026-110452)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-14 04:12
Modified
2026-10-14 17:27
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-708 - Incorrect Ownership Assignment
Summary
The multi-user installer in Nix before 2.35.3 sets the ownership of store contents to the user (who invoked the installer) even though it should be root ownership.
References
Impacted products
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Nomenclature
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